Integrative Healing Alchemy
Transforming Knowledge to Wisdom-Experience, Self-Awareness, Choice, Action.
The Balance of Four
Ancient cultures believed four interlocking circles symbolized the protective, balancing, unifying, eternal qualities of nature—its elements, directions and seasons on the Wheel of the Year, and the circulating energies between them. The deeper meanings of each of the four elements also exist within all living beings—physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually.
Each one is a gateway—a window to the soul.
Awareness and attention to the elemental connections, and alchemy of the stepping stones that lie beyond the glass create potential for evolutionary experiences. Applying this awareness to your daily life–your communication, health, relationships, and more, can clear the way to your higher self—super consciousness and experiential wisdom, especially when intention is present.
Some of the most balanced structures are founded upon four cornerstones. Your mind corresponds with four different levels of consciousness: that which is hidden—unconscious; that which is felt or sensed—subconscious; that which is known—conscious; and that which is inspired—super-conscious.
Your subtle body system has four primary energy cauldrons: in the abdomen (1st-3rd chakras); the chest, (4th chakra); the head (5th-7th chakras); and the space above the head at the top of the auric field (8th & 9th chakras). There are also four primary ways you interact with and respond to life: physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually.
Shine a light onto the path of personal evolution.
The four interlocking circles and the sacred cross are just two of many sacred symbols that can be used to highlight the four-fold path, guiding the journey and opening the gateway to a deeper exploration of life—both the inner terrain and outer experiences.
Many pre-defined esoteric maps can be easily applied to personal evolution. Several well-known examples include astrology, numerology, the 8 Limbs of Yoga, tarot, and the mystical Qabala.
There are also some very effective worldly and physiological maps—the levels of mind and consciousness; the essence of the vital organs as elemental symbols that resonate with earth, air, fire and water; time and the seasons of the year. On a more subtle level, the chakras and energy cauldrons are a map of both ascending and descending energies, and evolution.
Mapping guides intention.
The map is a foundation. It orients and assists focus, manifesting ideas and dreams into form—their intentions and potential outcomes, while the journey itself is a spontaneous and unfolding discovery. Each choice and action determining the next steps along the way.
“The map is not the territory,” Alfred Korsybski
Journeys are uniquely evolutionary.
Be grateful for those who have walked before you, entraining and marking the path so that you may experience your journey ever more deeply.
“One never goes as far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.” Goethe
Integrated Healing Alchemy
At the core of our four primary offerings are awareness, guidance, practice, and the elements: air—breath work; water—feng shui recipes for the body and soul; earth—herbal energy healing; fire—readings and pathworking for the soul and spirit. Each one uniquely interfaces with all four types of consciousness, the four primary energy cauldrons, the four levels of interaction and their corresponding mind states.
Proper use of energy–coupled with appropriately placed attention, intentional communication and purposeful direction, are the keys that clarify the view through the window and open the sacred gates to physical health, and emotional-mental integrity, as souls-spirits in human bodies, experiencing life on this amazing planet Earth.
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